Alice asked him to have some more to drink.
'No, thank you, miss,' he said; 'it's my favourite wine, but it doesn't agree with me; not the least bit.

But I've an uncle drinks it.

Suppose I ordered him half a dozen for a Christmas present?
Well, miss, here's the shilling commission, anyway,' and he pulled out a handful of money and gave her the shilling.
'But I thought the wine people paid that,' Alice said.
But the butcher said not on half-dozens they didn't.

Then he said he didn't think he'd wait any longer for Father--but would Alice ask Father to write him?
Alice offered him the sherry again, but he said something about 'Not for worlds!'-- and then she let him out and came back to us with the shilling, and said, 'How's that ?' And we said 'A1.' And all the evening we talked of our fortune that we had begun to make.
Nobody came next day, but the day after a lady came to ask for money to build an orphanage for the children of dead sailors.

And we saw her.